Guard fob wringers



W. H. STRAUSER.

GUARD FOR WRINGERS.

APPLICMION FILED MAR. 31. 1919.

Patented Sept. 9, 1919.

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Specification of Letters Eatent.

Patented Sept. 9, 1919.

Application filed March 31, 1919. Serial No. 286,326.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM H. Srnansnn, a citizen of the United States of America, and resident of hairmont, county of Marion, and State of West Virginia, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Guards for Wringers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates broadly to clothes wringers, and more particularly to guards for the rolls of such wringers.

The primary object of the invention is to provide, in association with the rolls of a clothes wringer, means whereby the articles of clothing acted upon are prevented from winding around said rolls.

A further object is to provide a device of the character mentioned which has a simple and inexpensive construction and which is readily applicable to wringers of practically all commercial types.

With these and other objects in view, the invention resides in the features of construction, arrangement of parts and combinations of elements which will hereinafter be fully described, reference bein had to the accompanying drawings, in which-- Figure 1 is a front elevation of a 'wringer embodying my invention, or to which my, invention is applied;

Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the same;

Fig. 3 is an enlarged front elevation of the invention, detached; and- Fig. 4 is an end elevation of the same.

Referring to said drawings, in which like designating characters distinguish like parts throughout the several views 1 indicates the upright side-members, or supports, of a clothes wringer which may be of any suitable or ordinary construction or type, and 2 and 3 designate, respectively, the

usual upper and lower rolls of such wringer. Attached to a face of each of the supports 1, as by means of screws 4:, is the laterally directed head, portion of an upright bracket 5.

Said brackets have their lower ends connected by a bar 7 which extends horizontally from one bracket to the other and which is suitably attached to said brackets, as by by the lower roll 3 of the wringer.

tn Carried by the inner edge of the bar '7 between the brackets 5 is an inwardly-ertending upwardly-inclined guard memberQ which has a longitudinally extending bev eled edge 9 designed to rest against, or to very closely approach, the periphery of the lower roll 3 in a position wherein it will be engaged by, and serve to strip from said roll, articles of clothing which adhere to and tend to follow said roll after having passed between the rolls 2 and 3.

Disposed in bearing-like holes 10 provided therefor in the brackets 5 at a suitable distance above the lower ends of the latter are trunnions' 11 formed upon the opposite ends of a downwardly and inwardly inclined guard member 12 which has a longitudinally extending beveled edge 12 disposed yieldingly in seated relation to the periphery of the upper roll 2, said beveled edge being designed to strip from said upper roll articles of clothing which adhere to and tend to wind upon said roll during the wringing operation.

The yieldingly seated relation of the guard 12 with respect to the-roll 2 is maintained by means of a retractile coil spring 13 which has its lower end attached to a suitable stationary part, as to an end of the bar 7 and its upper end attached to an outwardly extending member or hook 14: can tried by the extended end of the adjacent trunnion 11 of said guard 12.

While the guards 9 and 12 which constitute essential features of the invention are illustrated as applied to the front face of the wringer, it is to be "understood that they may be located on the opposite side; or, if desired, both sides of the wringer may have the herein described invention applied thereto.

The device not only performs the zt'unction hereinbei'ore attributed to it, but also serves in a measure to guard against the fingers of the operator becoming caught between the rolls.

What is claimed is-- 1. The combination with a clothes wringer having upright side members, of a bracket mounted upon a race of each of said sup ports, a fixed transverse guard carried by said brackets, said guard presenting a beveled face to the lower roll of the wringer, a second transverse guard pivotally mounted upon said brackets, the pivoted guard having.

a beveled face, and ylelding means maintaining said pivoted guard in a position wherein its beveled face is presentedto the upper roll of the wringer.

2. The combination with a clothes wringer having upright side members, of a bracket a second guard pivotally mounted on said brackets and having a beveled face, and means holding the pivoted guard in a position wherein its beveled face is yieldingly presented to the upper roll of'the wringer.

3. The combination with a clothes wringer having upright; side members, of a bracket mounted upon a face of each of said supports, a horizontal bar attached to and connesting said brackets and having an inclined guard extending inward therefrom into juxtapositionto the periphery of the lower rollof the wringer, a second guard pivotally mounted on said brackets,an d means attached to thepivoted guard whereby the latter is'yieldingly held in inclined position neaa eie clined guard extending inward t erefrom into juxtaposition to the periphery of the lower roll of the wringer, a second guard having trunnions loosely mounted in said brackets, an outwardly extending hook carried by a projecting end of one of said trunnions, and a retractile coil spring having one end attached to said hook whereby said second guard is yieldingly held in an inwardly inclined position presenting its in ner edge to the upper roll of the wringer.

in testimony whereof, I affix my signature in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM H. STRAUSER. 

